Example sentences of "to protect they [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some vegetables , like beetroot , carrot , endive and winter lettuce varieties , should be sown now , but covered with cloches later to protect them to maturity . |
| 2 | The notion of ‘ protection ’ is not necessarily concerned with protecting participants from emotion , for unless there is some kind of emotional engagement nothing can be learned , but rather to protect them into emotion . |
| 3 | It is important that you ensure all parcels are adequately packaged to protect them in transit . |
| 4 | This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard . |
| 5 | If war in Europe seems likely , trucks carrying four missiles each will emerge from their bunkers and disperse around southern Britain to protect them from attack . |
| 6 | It is reasonably hardwearing but it lacks the springiness and suppleness of wool ; consequently , silk rugs tend to retain any creases or scuffing in the pile , and far greater care is needed to protect them from damage . |
| 7 | It is doubtful how many of those who bestow gifts of coral on infants appreciate that their forebears did so to protect them from bewitchment . |
| 8 | Each collection features ten patterns for all the family in a clear lay-flat format with transparent plastic covers to protect them from machine oil and coffee stains . |
| 9 | They are one of the first candidates for food irradiation , which will replace the chemicals that are used to protect them from pests during storage . |
| 10 | Water voles have fairly specialized habitat needs : rivers or streams with steep banks and thick vegetation to protect them from birds of prey . |
| 11 | The issue is that , despite the information available , CSM took no action to protect patients from practolol at least from January to October 1975 ; and again took no action to protect them from benoxaprofen from October 1981 to August 1982 . |
| 12 | Catholics and protestants became more and more segregated by school , as the Roman catholic bishops sought to bind in their flocks from outside influences , on the one hand to protect them from proselytism , and on the other to use the schools as a vehicle for the maintenance and development of faith . |
| 13 | The wildest , emptiest part of the country — where cauldrons still hang over kitchen fires and shepherds ' dogs wear studded collars to protect them from wolves — is the high , craggy Beira Alta area , where Sabugueiro and Manteigas make great bases for walking . |
| 14 | WHILE watching the Olympic boxing , I realised what a sensible idea it is for the amateur fighters to wear headguards to protect them from brain injuries . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be wrong to keep uneconomic pits open by trying to protect them from competition from imported coal ? |
| 16 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 17 | No , not a dog , a bodyguard stationed there to protect them from evil . |
| 18 | Wrap your plants in newspaper to protect them from draughts and to stop leaves bruising . |
| 19 | Cattle wore collars of rowan wood to protect them from spells and curses . |
| 20 | Greenpeace hopes to identify individual dolphins by the bite and fight marks on their fins , and to chart their behaviour in an effort to protect them from extinction . |
| 21 | More often they rely on whorls of old leaves , tightly-packed neighbouring shoots , and above all snow-cover , to protect them from wind abrasion . |
| 22 | Any windsurfers ( except novices ) will need summer wet suits and shoes to protect them from wind chill . |
| 23 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 24 | Blockhouses were built in the fields , and sometimes the cattle were kept in fortified compounds to protect them from raiders . |
| 25 | The birds are stocked at a rate of 5,000 per hectare in a fenced off pasture to protect them from foxes and other predators . |
| 26 | To protect them against immersion , they have a waterproof coating . |